Six months ago, you posted essentially the
same proposal to eliminate down-votes,
receiving much useful feedback.
So why post again, and without providing a link to your previous post?
Did you forget you posted it?

You claim that, like Rhett Butler, you don't give a damn about being down-voted.
If down-votes don't bother you, why go to the trouble, not once but twice, to write at length about the ill-feeling caused by down-voting?

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
Other